Realism in Photography…

1. Realism inPhotography… The camera recorded precise images in the same way the realist authors observed and reported precisely and objectively as possible.

2. Louis Daguerre “Boulevard du Temple", taken by Daguerre in late 1838 in Paris, was the first photograph of a person. The image shows a busy street, but because exposure time was over ten minutes, the traffic was moving too much to appear. The exception is the man at the bottom left, who stood still getting his boots polished long enough to show

3. William Talbot 1841 Talbot made known his discovery of the calotype or talbotype process. Talbot's original contributions included the concept of a negative from which many positive prints can be made.

4. Realism inMusic… There are no true realist musicians the younger Bach is the closest historians have came to a “realist” in music

5. Realism inArt… The accurate and apparently objective description of the ordinary, observable world, a change especially evident in painting. The goal was the truthful and accurate depiction of the models that nature and contemporary life offer to the artist.

6. Jean-François Millet His early work comprised of conventional portraits and fashionable eighteenth century pastoral scenes 1848 he chose to exhibit The Winnower, a painting depicting peasant life, at the Paris Salon. It was the first of many rural scenes based on memories of his own childhood. Often accused of socialism because of his chosen subject, he was recognized as an important and original artist only after his death

7. The Winnower • (1847-1848) • It was said this piece had “everything it takes to horrify the bourgeois” • Both the colours worn by the winnower (red, white and blue) and the subject of winnowing itself (the act of separating the chaff from the grain), may have been intended to have a political meaning. • The chaff is tossed into the air by the winnower, its glowing colour contrasted with the largely somber tones elsewhere in the interior of the barn. Jean-François Millet

8. The Angelus (1857-59) His best known work. He chose to celebrate a dignified, hard working couple at work in the fields - their heads bowed in an expression of devotion in the face of nature Jean-François Millet

9. Potato Planters (1962) Jean-François Millet

10. Rest after Work Also known as “Noon day rest” (1866) Jean-François Millet

11. French realist painter, • He opposed the popular Romantic style of painting and insisted on painting things as he saw them, not as others wanted them to look. • He painted simple things • and plain people • leading figure in the bohemian • art movement of the 1850’s. Gustave Corbet/Courbet Self Portrait

12. Portrait of Juliette Courbet as a Sleeping Child A pencil drawing Gustave Corbet/Courbet

13. A Burial at Ornans Gustave Corbet/Courbet

14. French caricaturist, painter, and sculptor. In his lifetime he was known chiefly as a political and social satirist, but since his death recognition of his qualities as a painter has grown. • In the directness of his vision and the lack of sentimentality with which he depicts current social life. He is a realist! • Was deeply interested in people, especially the underprivileged Honore Daumier

15. Deeply interested in people, especially the underprivileged. In Third-Class Carriage he shows us, with great compassion, a group of people on a train journey. • We are especially concerned with one family group, the young mother tenderly holding her small child, the weary grandmother lost in her own thoughts, and the young boy fast asleep. • The painting is done with simple power and economy of line. • The hands, for example, are reduced to mere outlines but beautifully drawn. • The bodies are as solid as clay, their bulk indicated by stressing the essential and avoiding the nonessential. • These are not portraits of particular people but of mankind. Honore Daumier

16. The Third Class Carriage Honore Daumier

17. He also did a number of paintings featuring Don Quixote as a larger-than-life hero. Honore Daumier Don Quixote and Sancho Panza(1866-68)  Don Quixote and  the Dead Mule